Highway guard



Feb. 19, 1929. 1,702,574

J. A. ROBERTS v HIGHWAY GUARD Filed Feb. 27, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet l Feb. 19, 1929. 1,702,574

J. A. ROBERTS HIGHWAY GUARD Fi1'ed Feb. 27, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 1mm efwmas' Q'ZoZerZs al -$0M Patented Feb. 19, 1929.

tlNlTED STATES JAMES ADDISON ROBERTS, OF ASHLAND, OHIO.

HIGHWAY GUARD.

Application filed February 27, 1928. Serial No. 257,379.

The invention relates to improvements in guards placed along highways at embankments or the like, to prevent vehicles from running off of the road in case of accidents. The invention has reference more particularly to guards of this type which make use of a plurality of posts and steel cables secured to said posts and having their ends anchored to suitable dead men.

One object of the invention is to provide new and improved means for securing the cables to the posts and for holding said cables in inwardly spaeedrelation with said posts, so that parts ot a machine cannot readily strike the posts but will slide along the cables.

A further object is to provide novel guard means for the securing means of the cables, preventing any vehicle parts from catching upon said securing means it coming into contact therewith.

A still further object is to provide a construction which is simple and inexpensive, may be easily manufactured and sold at small cost, and may be installed with ease, regard less of the configuration of the posts.

lVith the foregoing in view, the invention resiees in the novel subject matter hereinafter described and claimed, description being accomplished by reference to the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 1 is a perspective View.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional View, the plane on which this view is cut, being indicated by line 2-2 of Fig. 5.

Figs. 3 and a are detail sectional views on the correspondingly numbered lines of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view on line 55 of Fig. 2. I

Fig. 6 is a perspective view showing the manner in which the guard for the cable-sccuring means is applied.

Fig. 7 is a plan view of the blank from which the aforesaid guard is formed.

The drawings above briefly described illustrate the preferred details of construction, and while these details will be herein specifically explained, it is to be understood that within the scope of the invention as claimed, variations may be made.

The numeral 8 denotes a partly flattened metal tube of continuous cross section throughout its length and tapered toward one end, the larger end of this sleeve being provided with a continuous outstanding flange 9 to bear against a post 10. The entire sleeve may be malleable if desired, but I prefer to at least make the flange 9015 such nature, permitting it to be hammered into proper shape at the time of application, to

fit the contour of the post, whether a convex,

a concave or a flat formation be required of said flange. The smaller or outer end of the sleeve 8 is adapted to abut a steel cable 11, which cable is secured a ainst said sleeve end by the hook 12 on the end of a J-bolt 13, a portion of this hook being receivable in said smaller end of the sleeve. The bolt 13 passes longitudinally through the sleeve 8 and is of greater length than the latter to extend through the post 10, the outer end of said bolt being provided with a washer 14 and nut 15. Tightening of this nut not only secures the sleeve 8 tightly againstthe post 10, but causes the hook 12 to tightly clamp the cable 11 against the outer end of said sleeve.

A guard of novel form is provided to prevent tender, wheel or hot y portions of a vehicle from catching upon the hook 12, should such vehicle come in contact with the highway guard. In the present showing, two metal sleeves 16 surround the portions of the cable 11 at opposite sides of the hook 12 and the bracket or the like 8, and the inner ends of these sleeves 16 are integral with a guard plate 17 which extends across and partially covers the hook 12. The sleeves 16 and the guard portion 17 have their exposed surfaces so merging into each other that no abrupt projections are provided, upon which parts of vehicles may catch it sliding along the highway guard. The sleeves 16 are both preferably split throughout their lengths, permitting these sleeves and the guard portion 17 to be manufactured in the formof a channel. as shown in Fig. 6, with notches 18 at its upper and lower sides. This channel i'nay be readily applied by hand as will be clear from Fig. 6, the nolchcs '18 receiving the upper and lower portions of the hook 12 and portionsct the bracket or the like 8. After positioning the guard member in place, the sleeves 16 may be easily clinched about the cable 11, thereby 'tenaciously securing said guard member and cable in assembled relation.

The portions 89 and 16-17 may be formed in any desired manner, for instance, of stampings, forgings, or castings, appropriate annealing being, of course, carried out if necessary, to permit clinching of the sleeves 16 around the cable 11 and to permit bending; of the flange 9 into conformity with the configuration of the post with Which it is to contact. In the present showing it may he considered that the sleeves 16 and tle guard portions 17 are all stamped from a single blank of the configuration shown in Fig. 7.

The invention not only greatly desirable for securing the cables of highway guards in spaced relation with the posts to prevent machine parts 10111 king; the lattez. but

it is of such nature that machine, my instance colliding with the gu: id and sliding along); the same, cani'iot catch upon any parts thereof. it he body o the machine, or inthe cables no part stance is EHHllllQ alono there can catch upon the nook 12, but v ill be gum-ed across sani hool: by the sleeves 16 and guard portion i4.

Qn account of lhe excellent i' salts obtainable from the details dicclosei they are preferably followei. aver, variations nay be made Within he scone 01" the invention as claimed.

sleeves being; longitudinally split, permitting them to he clinched around the cable.

in a cable securing means for a highz-u'd a paitiallv flattenec sleeve of section throughout its 5th, one end of said 1 eove being provided continiiious i) nalleable e "o bear aeiinst a post, and a \l-bolt ongitudinz llv tlii'cu h said sleeve Q I e ed end receivable partly 1n said iniony whereof I lave hereunto afsignature.

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